Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1979
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Lindsey v. Lindsey · Stilwell v. Knapper · Continental Life Insurance v. Kessler · Andrews v. Spurlin · Leach v. Leach
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was no other valuable consideration for the deed, and, unless the instrument can operate as a defeasance, it is difficult to see how, in respect to some, at least, of its terms, it could be enforced, or be made effective in any way. It may be said that the covenants contained in the writing are personal covenants merely, but that cannot affect the conclusion that the deed was made on condition that they be faithfully kept and performed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.